Inkmo
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Hey gang. Was looking around for reviews of cans I'm considering and came across this site. It's a retailer site, so take it with a grain of salt -- and no, I'm not site pimping. And it's also in Japanese. Anyways, I'm showing you because I was taken aback by the nice user review tool.
So, instructions are fairly straightforward. On that Page, click on the company of your choice (you need Japanese Language packs for some).
Japanese Brand Names for your reference:
ゼンハイザー = Sennheiser
オーディオテクニカ = Audio Technica
パナソニック = Panasonic
Other brands, which you guys probably won't care about, but just in case:
エレコム = Elecom
グリーンハウス = Greenhouse
ケンウッド = Kenwood
サンワサプライ = Sanwa Supply
シャープ = Sharp
ビクター = Victor
マクセル = Maxell
ロジクール = Logicool
Anyways, click brand name, click model and you're on the info page for said can. Next, there are probably 4 or 5 tabs along the top of the window the headphone is in. Usually the third is ユーザーレビュー = User Review. Click there.
Next, and this is where I think the functionality here is pretty nice, you'll look down under the first window with the can's picture and price to the user review graphs. The left one is a table:
The ユーザー投票平均 Column is the Average User Rating Column
The カテゴリ平均 Column is the Category Average Column. This way, you can compare what you're looking at with everything else on the site. The third column is descriptions of the different aspects being rated, and you guys should know what they mean anyways.
The Rows:
デザイン = Design
高音の音質 = Sound Quality, Treble
低音の音質 = Sound Quality, Bass
フィット感 = Comfort, essentially
外音遮断性 = Isolation
音漏れ防止 = Sound Leakage, high rating being less sound leaked.
携帯性 = Portability
満足度 = Overall Rating. Actually reads 'Degree of Satisfaction'. This number does not appear to be an average or mean of the previous ratings.
Next, to the right there is a little diagram (what are these called? Diamond Graphs or something?) that graphs the different characteristics. The red line represents the average, so again it is easy to gauge a can's overall characteristics. The characteristic names correspond to the ones used in the graph.
Under that, you can see the individual users' reviews, though their in depth descriptions are in Japanese
.
Anyhow, I'm sure you will keep in mind that these are user reviews on a retail site, and that you'll approach them the same way as you usually would. I just thought it would be useful to present because I find the presentation of the reviews to be very well organized, and because there are reviews of some cans that still haven't had very much exposure over here. I guess, in summation, not necessarily the best information, but it's more info and well presented.
Hope you guys can make some good use of this.
So, instructions are fairly straightforward. On that Page, click on the company of your choice (you need Japanese Language packs for some).
Japanese Brand Names for your reference:
ゼンハイザー = Sennheiser
オーディオテクニカ = Audio Technica
パナソニック = Panasonic
Other brands, which you guys probably won't care about, but just in case:
エレコム = Elecom
グリーンハウス = Greenhouse
ケンウッド = Kenwood
サンワサプライ = Sanwa Supply
シャープ = Sharp
ビクター = Victor
マクセル = Maxell
ロジクール = Logicool
Anyways, click brand name, click model and you're on the info page for said can. Next, there are probably 4 or 5 tabs along the top of the window the headphone is in. Usually the third is ユーザーレビュー = User Review. Click there.
Next, and this is where I think the functionality here is pretty nice, you'll look down under the first window with the can's picture and price to the user review graphs. The left one is a table:
The ユーザー投票平均 Column is the Average User Rating Column
The カテゴリ平均 Column is the Category Average Column. This way, you can compare what you're looking at with everything else on the site. The third column is descriptions of the different aspects being rated, and you guys should know what they mean anyways.
The Rows:
デザイン = Design
高音の音質 = Sound Quality, Treble
低音の音質 = Sound Quality, Bass
フィット感 = Comfort, essentially
外音遮断性 = Isolation
音漏れ防止 = Sound Leakage, high rating being less sound leaked.
携帯性 = Portability
満足度 = Overall Rating. Actually reads 'Degree of Satisfaction'. This number does not appear to be an average or mean of the previous ratings.
Next, to the right there is a little diagram (what are these called? Diamond Graphs or something?) that graphs the different characteristics. The red line represents the average, so again it is easy to gauge a can's overall characteristics. The characteristic names correspond to the ones used in the graph.
Under that, you can see the individual users' reviews, though their in depth descriptions are in Japanese
Anyhow, I'm sure you will keep in mind that these are user reviews on a retail site, and that you'll approach them the same way as you usually would. I just thought it would be useful to present because I find the presentation of the reviews to be very well organized, and because there are reviews of some cans that still haven't had very much exposure over here. I guess, in summation, not necessarily the best information, but it's more info and well presented.
Hope you guys can make some good use of this.
